Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Stephen King
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There are many Exceptions to a Rule but no Rule to Exceptions.
JAI SINGH What's another word for Thesaurus?
STEVEN WRIGHT What's another word for Thesaurus?
STEVEN WRIGHT There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
CHARLES OSGOOD But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is...
KATE DICAMILLO Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I sa...
JACQUELINE CAREY Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The ...
CONFUCIUS Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The M...
CONFUCIUS Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?
I detest that ...
MELINA MARCHETTA I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to...
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life...
CONFUCIUS Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life...
CONFUCIUS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
MARGARET ATWOOD There is One Rule which is always Steadfast, the rule of Exceptions!
JAI SINGH There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can t...
KATE MIDDLETON For the survivors who are in the tents, the conditions are unacceptable. There is no other word for ...
ERIC MORRIS In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no...
SYDNEY SMITH Is she sane?’ asked Mrs. Linton, appealing to me. ‘I’ll repeat our conversation, word for word...
EMILY BRONTë In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose ...
JODI PICOULT Second, you should examine the Scriptures for principles that relate to the issue at hand. The Lord ...
JAMES C. DOBSON You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I ...
JOANNA LUMLEY If this hunt goes through, there will be other requests coming to the Russian government to hunt bel...
KAREN STEUER HASH, x. There is no definition for this word --nobody knows what hash is.
AMBROSE BIERCE All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's somethi...
PRINCE WILLIAM The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use... I prefer the word "unethical."
IVAN BOESKY There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
JOHN BUCHANAN ROBINSON Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other ...
CLIVE BARKER No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have...
SALMAN RUSHDIE The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur
GEORGE W. BUSH The hunt for Nazis is no longer relevant. There are no important Nazis alive any more, essentially. ...
YOSEF LAPID Safe' is a very bad word in the stock market. There is no such thing as safe. 'Smart' is a good word...
BOB SCHMIDT 'Safe' is a very bad word in the stock market. There is no such thing as safe. 'Smart' is a good wor...
BOB SCHMIDT Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.
HAROLD BLOOM One who receives this Word, and by it salvation, receives along with it the duty of passing this Wor...
EMIL BRUNNER A forest - the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England&...
JOHN BURNSIDE If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Every day brings a ship,
Every ship brings a word;
Well for those who have no fear,
Look...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule o...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Of this you may be assured, that you shall none of you suffer for your opinions or religion, so lo...
CHARLES II One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the gene...
PETE GALLEGO The only power you have is the word no.
FRANCES MCDORMAND Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking ...
WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW This is a big year for him, ... He's in a group of exceptions to the rule. This is his team. Everyth...
WARREN MOON For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
FABRICE MUAMBA There is no fear in the word LOVE! For LOVE does not know fear...
PHILIP T. M. Parents never you make church and studying the word of God optional for your children. If they are i...
PATIENCE JOHNSON In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the...
FRANK ZAPPA Those are the sorts of people for which there was a process built in to allow exceptions, to allow a...
DAN SENOR To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is ...
BIBLE The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytim...
CONOR OBERST Comfort is the word we use. In this collection, there are some bags that touch the body. They are pa...
LAURA MOLTEDO The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, li...
ROB REINER Don't you want to know what cookies is a code word for?"
"No! Good God, no!
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you...
ADAM CLARKE It's no coincidence the word "hear" is in the word "heart."
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a wo...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The French have no word for Entrepeneur
GEORGE BUSH The “Word of God” is not simply the Christian Bible but exists in a threefold form: “The Word�...
GARY PATTON Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
DANA STABENOW The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and ...
G.K. CHESTERTON For words are the Word, and the Word is God.
VICTOR HUGO ...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a m...
VICTOR HUGO There is no word to describe it. It was amazing.
JOSH EATON It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. His confession was no confession at all. He confessed to something he really didn't do.
GERALD WORD I feel bad for our seniors. This was their last chance and now it's gone.
ENDIA WORD All the way to state. It's been the goal since we lost last year. I'll probably be 100 percent by th...
ENDIA WORD I was trying to be light on the one that I hurt. I was favoring it a whole lot, and it was making my...
ENDIA WORD We expected the judge to rule this way. This is exactly what we were looking for.
GERALD WORD They are relieved. This is the best news they've had in two years.
GERALD WORD This is the best news the family has heard in two years.
GERALD WORD Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
...
LADY ELIZABETH CAREW (CARY OR CAREY) The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and ...
G.K. CHESTERTON There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater tha...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN There was no word from him between 1971 and 1974,
CYNTHIA LENNON Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have s...
UNKNOWN Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have sai...
ANONYMOUS I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experie...
MARY ROACH The one trying to have the last word is rarely walking in the Word.
HOLLISA ALEWINE Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s...
FREDERICK FARRAR In the lexicon of youth, which
Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word
As--f...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on ...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 In saying God is there, we are saying Go...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, 'You never know.'
JOAQUIN ANDUJAR A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King h...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON In Sanskrit, there exists no word for ‘The Individual’ (L’Individu). En Grèce antique, il n�...
ROMAN PAYNE When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...
STEPHEN FRY There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act...
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STEPHEN KING stop now before i kill you
a word to the wise from your friend
PENNYWISE
STEPHEN KING Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a coincidence is just a coincidence.
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STEPHEN KING They were close to the end of the beginning . . .
STEPHEN KING They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
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STEPHEN KING We all float down here!
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I ai...
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STEPHEN KING There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any se...
STEPHEN KING I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, tha...
STEPHEN KING There’s always someone who knows something.
STEPHEN KING What if I fall?', Tim cried.
Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.
STEPHEN KING A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're childre...
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STEPHEN KING I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.
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STEPHEN KING oh shit it's shit
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STEPHEN KING Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
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STEPHEN KING Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers...
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STEPHEN KING It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
STEPHEN KING You must not come lightly to the blank page.
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STEPHEN KING If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
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STEPHEN KING A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.
STEPHEN KING Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from th...
STEPHEN KING Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming e...
STEPHEN KING I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.
STEPHEN KING No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as ...
STEPHEN KING The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
STEPHEN KING The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.
STEPHEN KING Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.
STEPHEN KING God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.
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STEPHEN KING Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.
STEPHEN KING Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.
STEPHEN KING Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, s...
STEPHEN KING Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children,...
STEPHEN KING Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.
STEPHEN KING It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good en...
STEPHEN KING When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
STEPHEN KING Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, ...
STEPHEN KING Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"
He stared at me, baffle...
STEPHEN KING Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic...
STEPHEN KING I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost alw...
STEPHEN KING Without his even being aware that it was happening, Paul's face rearranged itself into the expressio...
STEPHEN KING I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that s...
STEPHEN KING There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the c...
STEPHEN KING Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, ...
STEPHEN KING Love leaves scars.
STEPHEN KING When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the tim...
STEPHEN KING The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
STEPHEN KING Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.
STEPHEN KING He killed them with their love
STEPHEN KING Home is where they want you to stay longer.
STEPHEN KING For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thin...
STEPHEN KING He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Uta...
STEPHEN KING She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.
STEPHEN KING When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invaria...
STEPHEN KING Get busy living or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING Good books are for consideration after, too.
STEPHEN KING And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
STEPHEN KING Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day
STEPHEN KING I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let h...
STEPHEN KING I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, a...
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